Friendship
A Simple Friend has never seen you cry.
A Real Friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.
A Simple Friend doesn't know your parent's first names.
A Real Friend has their phone numbers in his/her address book
A Simple Friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A Real Friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean.
A Simple Friend hates it when you call after he/she has gone to bed.
A Real Friend asks you why you took so long to call.
A Simple Friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A Real Friend seeks to help you with your problems.
A Simple Friend wonders about your romantic history.
A Real Friend could blackmail you with it.
A Simple Friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A Real Friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.
A Simple Friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.
A Real Friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.
A Simple Friend expects you to always be there for them.
A Real Friend expects to always be there for you!
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
"A true friend is someone who doesn't judge you by the way you look but rather by the by what's inside! (V. Brown)
Pass this on to all of your friends, even if it means sending it to the person that sent it to you.
"If you have one true friend, you have more than your share"
"It is said that love is blind. Friendship on the other hand, is clairvoyant"
"If we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four friends in the world" ( B. Pascal, Philosopher)
"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are"
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal" ( Jane Austen, writer)
"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer" (Oscar Wilde, writer)
"Friendship is almost always the union of the part of one mind with a part of another"
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light"
"Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms (judgements)"
"One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been…in the closest intimacy" (Anthony Powell, writer)
"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible"
"A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality…"
"Think twice before you speak to a friend in need"
"Trouble shared is trouble halved"
"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman"
" ‘Ours’… that teabag of a word that seeps in the conditional"
"If you want a person’s faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know" (Robert Stevenson, writer)
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a (true) friend loves the man himself"
"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship" ( Mao Tse-Tung)
"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you"
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival" (C. S. Lewis, writer)
"If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows – it becomes a month, a year, a century, it becomes too late…"
"It is good to have some friends both in heaven and in Hell"
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity (, yet we persevere beyond logic) (Mortimer Adler, educator)
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born" (Anais Nin, writer)
"What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence" (Mirra Komarovsky, educator)
"Friendship or Love – one must choose. One cannot serve two masters" (Rene Crevel, writer)
"Rene was wrong. They are one and the same: Friendship was Love’s name . . . before she got married" (Stephen Plummer)